Serum vascular endothelial growth factor levels in various liver diseases

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-45

  Akiyoshi, Fuyuhiko ^b   Sata, Michio ^a   Suzuki, Hiroshi ^b   Uchimura, Yasuyo ^b   Mitsuyama, Keiichi ^b   Matsuo, Katsuhiko ^b   Tanikawa, Kyuichi ^b  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acute hepatitis; Fulminant hepatitis; Hepatocyte growth factor; Various liver diseases; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BLOOD LEVEL; CELL REGENERATION; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER CELL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER DISEASES; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0031952498     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018863718430     Document Type: Article

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